Making The Majors Is Not As Hard

There Wasn't Much White People Would Allow Us To Do In Those Days. You Could Be A Schoolteacher Or An Athlete To Get Away From The Manual Labor And Servant-type Jobs, But There Wasn't Much Else They Were Going To Allow You [to] Do.

It Took Me Seventeen Years To Get Three Thousand Hits In Baseball. I Did It In One Afternoon On The Golf Course.

I Had Just Turned 20, And Jackie Told Me The Only Way To Be Successful At Anything Was To Go Out And Do It. He Said Baseball Was A Game You Played Every Day, Not Once A Week.

Sure, This Country Has A Black President, But When You Look At A Black President, President Obama Is Left With His Foot Stuck In The Mud From All Of The Republicans With The Way He's Treated. We Have Moved In The Right Direction, And There Have Been Improvements, But We Still Have A Long Ways To Go In The Country.

There Is No Such Thing As A Bed Of Roses All Your Life.